fidoboy Wrote:hello guys, you must also add the magic line in advancedsettings.xml file. DDS Files doesn't need to be renamed to TBN again!

@neomits: i don't want to sound rude but... if you have zero experience, why are you trying to use this experimental feature?

neomits Wrote:cause I'm willing to learn and for most things can figure it out on my own.

I figured out how to convert an individual file, but obviously that's a pain to do each fanart one at a time. If someone could help me understand how to batch the full folder (%%x) thats all I'm looking for.

furii Wrote:open notepad and paste this code into it

Code:

ren *.tbn *.jpg
for %%x in (*.jpg) do "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Texture Tools 2\bin\nvcompress.exe" -fast -bc1 %%x
ren *.jpg *.tbn

save the file as tbn2dds.bat in your fanart folder and run it from there to convert them to dds.

%%x is just a variable that stands for every (jpg) file in the folder. it sounds like you were trying to just do start > run > "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Texture Tools 2\bin\nvcompress.exe" -fast -bc1 %%x which you can't do. you can only call variables from the batch file.

Louike Wrote:if you remove the .dds file there will be a white background.

bomana Wrote:Skimming backward it seems like a few scripts are floating around there to deal with the dds conversion until a proper solution is in place in xbmc. Anywho, I wrote a script to convert my existing fanart. Then I wrote a script to monitor for new fanart. Then I thought that perhaps somebody else wants it, so I spent a short while merging them together, and cleaning up a little bit. It is messy. It is virtually untested (I have not tested on my production xbmc box -file server is down waiting for new sas kit).

The script can be found here.

Dependencies are inotify-tools and nvcompress.

It uses inotify to monitor the dir(s) for files that are opened for writing, so there is no polling going on. When the opened file is closed nvcompress is run on the file. This should cover the case where you keep the original file and it gets over written with a new fanart while keeping the same file name.

This script handles jpeg and png original images, as those are the only formats I have seen from themoviedb.

There is an option to convert existing directories. (-c)
Or an option to monitor directories. (-m)
There is an option to delete the original file after conversion. (-r)
There is an option to daemonize the process (run in background), in which case all output will be to logs. (-d)

Logs are /tmp/tbn2dds.*, you can `tail -f /tmp/tbn2dds.log` to monitor nvcompress' progress if you running in '-d' mode.

Example usage would be:
tbn2dds -md /home/xbmc/fanart
or
tbm2dds -cr /home/xbmc/fanart

The script is a hack. It is uggly. It is bad. It will make you cry. It will make neighborhood children laugh at you as they pelt you with their leftover lunches. There is virtually *NO* sanity checking at all. Use at your own risk.

enjoy,
Andreas

bleze Wrote:On Windows 7 x64 on a Intel I7 nvcompress.com 64 bit cannot load jpeg's. Running the win32 version works fine but I find that the -fast parameter actually is slower than running without.

-bc1 -fast: 1.950 seconds
-bc1 : 1.537 seconds
(both with CUDA enabled)

headcase Wrote:Awesome, thank you.